Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret aim of pro-Communist operators like Hillman's counsel, John Abt, was to weld radical labor groups, disaffected Democrats and odds & ends of disgruntled Americans into a third party. Obviously, they would need a candidate. Collaborating with the proCommunists were such New Dealers as Beanie Baldwin, a onetime Wallace aide in the Agriculture Department. The Abts and Baldwins formed a cabal of sympathetic minds with a common goal...
...years before World War I, fierce-eyed, mustachioed "Professor" Ivy Baldwin was as famous as many a king. He was a tiny man (5 ft. 3 in., 112 Ibs.), but he had a fine sense of balance and a vast contempt for death. He toured the world making balloon ascensions and parachute jumps. He dived into nets from incredible heights. He walked high wires with the ease and insouciance...
...Staid Baldwin Locomotive Co. had dozed at the switch. Once it made nearly half of all U.S. locomotives, but in the last five years its share of business has dropped to less than 10%. Unwilling to concede that diesels were revolutionizing the locomotive business (TIME, Dec. 29), Baldwin concentrated on making steam engines while such upstarts as General Motors' Electro-Motive Division grabbed the lion's share of new orders...
Last week, Baldwin Locomotive got a waking & shaking up. The shaker was Westinghouse Electric Co., which bought working control (21%) of Baldwin. Out as Baldwin's boss went 60-year-old President Ralph Kelly. In as executive vice president and operating boss went Westinghouse's longtime chief engineer, Texas-born Marvin W. Smith, 54. Smith's big job is to put Baldwin back into the running for a share of the booming diesel-electric locomotive market...
Hybrid Corn. Through all these preliminary maneuverings, the man who developed hybrid corn sat in his hotel room, holding court, conferring with his loyal campaign manager, C.B. ("Beany") Baldwin, an old associate from Department of Agriculture days. It was doubtful whether Wallace ever knew for sure just what was going on. It was even more doubtful if the delegates knew...